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Male mosquitoes live quite peaceably on plant nectars and juices high in sugar, but females need protein from blood to nourish their eggs before depositing them. They get it from humans and animals and rely on an array of senses to ensure that they rarely fly wide of a possible meal...
...Administration hard-liners. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a Paris-based Iranian dissident group, claims that North Korean scientists have been helping Iran build a nuclear facility that could be used to produce bombmaking material. Last December, NCRI blew the whistle on Iran's uranium-enrichment plant in Natanz, heightening international concern about the nature of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Just how much nuclear help Iran is getting from North Korea isn't clear, says NCRI spokesman Alireza Jafarzadeh. "We do know they have benefited," he says...
...good for Mikhail Khodorkovsky ($8 billion) of the giant Yukos group, who was questioned by state prosecutors investigating corruption. And downright terrible for Platon Lebedev ($1 billion), head of Khodorkovsky's finance arm Menatep, who was arrested on fraud charges in connection with the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, was questioned in connection with the Lebedev case, but many believe his problems are political, not criminal. He is helping fund opposition parties in the December elections for the Duma, or lower house of parliament. This has broken an unwritten rule in Russia: oligarchs...
...paraffin. At a time when most state-owned rail-freight companies are losing money and customers, Raith's sales have almost tripled in the past two years, to €24 million. Rail4Chem was founded by the chemical giant BASF in 1999 after it bought a polyurethane and fertilizer plant in eastern Germany, only to find that state-owned Deutsche Bahn (DB) wasn't able to cater to its just-on-time production schedule. At the time Germany, acting ahead of many of its neighbors, had begun allowing private freight operators to move their goods within the nation on state-owned...
SCARY MONSTER: The Whomping Willow, the Mike Tyson of the plant kingdom...